The Region at MicrosoftRegionalDirectors.com

Welcome to The Region, global hub for the 140 software architects, developers, trainers and other professionals selected by Microsoft as Regional Directors. The first thing to know is that, while we’re officially recognized by Microsoft and often receive inside information about forthcoming technologies, we are completely independent. We are not Microsoft employees. As to The Region, it’s designed to help us circulate insights, information, inspiration and inquiries among RD’s and among the broader developer community. And it's an experiment. We hope you find it useful. We hope we find it useful, too.


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Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions architectures. He has been modelling and implementing distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies. Christian has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects in the past few years, with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) being the two main technologies applied recently. Christian's views on architecture and distributed solutions are considered both mature and innovating. A number of customers have put confidence into his experience when it comes to apply WCF and WF to real problems and dealing with ideas like 'Software plus Services'. The national and international developer and architect community knows Christian from his weblog, webcasts, forums activities, usergroup talks and conference performances. He was selected as one of the Microsoft MVPs and is an independent Microsoft Regional Director. You can reach Christian at christian.weyer@thinktecture.com.

Windows Communication Foundation

Sample REST Services URLs in Windows Azure with WCF4s Routing Integration Feature

Christian Weyer writes "...WCF4 has a nice feature I like really a lot. It is the integration into the System.Web.Routing engine when it comes to hosting your services. You can simply add a route to your service implementations in the global.asax file – as seen in the code below. No need for .svc files...just plain WCF4. Download a small sample solution..." Read post »

Suggested Reading

Read and Recommended: Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control

Christian Weyer writes "...fantastic official Microsoft guide. If you need to grok the concepts and technical details about how to do claims-based identity and access control on the Windows and .NET platform..." Read post »

Windows Mobile

When You Read This Line I got an SMS Sent by Simple Lines of C# Code

Christian Weyer writes "...The other day I wanted to have a simple piece of code for some of my apps to send out a text message/SMS to mobile devices...we are going to use a HttpUrlEncodedForm object from the REST Starter Kit to set up our name/value pairs for the request message. The token from the STS needs to go into the Authorization header – and then we are ready to post the data to the service in order to send our SMS." Read post »
Germany

Christian Weyer

thinktecture Neustadt am Main, Bayern, DE Send email to Christian Christian's blog  »

Technical Expertise .NET Development, .NET Framework, Architecture, ASP .NET, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, C#, Public Speaking, Service Orientation, Software Architect, Visual Studio 2010, WCF, Windows Server 2003
Years of Experience 12
Certifications METRO-C, METRO-T
Awards Microsoft MVP
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Engineering applications